Former Funeral Home Owner Receives 20 Year Sentence for Selling Body Parts

Well, Megan Hess, a 46-year-old former funeral home owner from Colorado, found a way to stand out from the typical white-collar criminal. On Tuesday, she was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without permission of the families of the deceased. Hess ran the Sunset Mesa funeral home and a body parts entity, Donor Services, from the same building.

Hess pled guilty to fraud and received the maximum sentence allowed under the law. Her mother, 69-year-old Shirley Koch, was also involved in the gruesome scheme and was sentenced to 15 years. Reuters reports that Koch’s main responsibility was cutting up the bodies for sale.

Former workers at Hess’s businesses tipped off Reuters about the illegal dismemberment trade in 2018, and an FBI raid soon followed.

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